Example sentences of "[adv] pick up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The separation of to and the infinitive by introducing an adverb or phrase : I want you to gently pick up the box instead of I want you to pick up the box gently . |
| 2 | In many companies the normal management accounting system will only pick up a currency exposure when the sales entry has been made and by that time adverse currency fluctuations could have eroded or wiped out the profit margin . |
| 3 | I had made a start in Burmese at the School of Oriental Languages in London , going up from Stepney for a weekly lesson , so I could read haltingly and use a score or more greetings and questions , which deceived the kindly village people into thinking that I knew more than I did , with the result that an opening sentence of mine would elicit a whole string of Burmese from which I would only pick up a word or two . |
| 4 | If you could just pick up a load of scrap iron and shove it on the bill under metalwork you would n't be turning up your nose at the subject . |
| 5 | You could n't just pick up the phone at any time you liked . |
| 6 | I 'll just pick up the phone and , how 'll I begin ? |
| 7 | ‘ If I can take out a £420 loan and have ten years to pay it back , I 'll just pick up the cheque and go out and get ratted , ’ he said . |
| 8 | If I could just pick up the point you made Councillor , I think that at the A C C discussions , there was a great deal of cognition and understanding of the need to consult with staff side , in the run up to the beginning of formal consultations . |
| 9 | I could so easily pick up a drink . |
| 10 | I 'm just frightened because I could so easily pick up a drink . |
| 11 | He told Granada TV 's This Morning show : ‘ I 'm just frightened because , God , I could so easily pick up a drink . |
| 12 | I can usually pick up a ball with one hand , but as I was laying over the ball , I had to use both hands to pick it up , and already a Cardiff forward was rushing down on me . |
| 13 | He 's got this little kit , but there are hardly any mics there , and the low-decibel La 's style means that you can directly pick up every collision between muscle and wood and steel . |
| 14 | Why do n't you ever pick up the freebie papers ? |
| 15 | If your technique is delivered after the referee called for a halt , then as well as not scoring you may also pick up a penalty . |
| 16 | No doubt a research project to assess the increase of acidity by rain by heather ( Calluna vulgaris ) would also pick up the effect of accumulated dust . |
| 17 | He was n't blocking anything , and at the end of the alley was the street ; he 'd probably pick up a ticket between now and the time of the meeting , but that would be a small price to pay for the convenience of having less than a couple of hundred yards to drag her . |
| 18 | Then came the time to really pick up the slack once more . |
| 19 | We had about fifteen minutes to go , and decided to try to continue to Viseu , since we could now pick up the VOR , and therefore find our way back to Vila Real if we had to . |
| 20 | May well pick up the bit of pa a paper . |
| 21 | They are beginning to let more and more hotel-type contracts , which makes sense — if we 've got a lot of senior management on a big site , they might as well pick up the housekeeping as well . ’ |
| 22 | Cut a few corners , and you can maybe pick up a day or two along the way . ’ |
| 23 | When we got to the pub my hands were so swollen and red from picking up the jug and throwing it all day I could barely pick up a pint to drink . ’ |
| 24 | Our latest Foreign Secretary has yet to publicly pick up the file marked Hong Kong . |
| 25 | Well I 'm vo involved in Crossline which is a a Christian run telephone helpline , erm , we off , also offer free counselling and they find that er , there 's more men will actually pick up the telephone , cos they 're not seen erm , whereas more women will actually come in for face to face counselling . |
| 26 | If you do n't actually pick up the handset and either get engaged , meaning that the other party 's engaged , you wo n't find out . |